The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Watford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Grails 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £375 £413
% change year-on-year
-21.33% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Application Development
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
20 28 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 27.78% 26.17% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £380 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Grails
Hertfordshire

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Grails across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford Grails Jobs Demand Trend

Grails
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Grails across the Watford region.

Watford Grails Daily Rate Trend

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Grails also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Grails.

1 6 (100.00%) Groovy
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) Spring
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 2 (33.33%) JSON
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) MySQL
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (16.67%) Finance
6 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (16.67%) JUnit
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) J2EE
6 1 (16.67%) Apache
6 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
6 1 (16.67%) jQuery
6 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Grails also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Grails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Checkstyle
1 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Groovy
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript